Common infection strategies of pathogenic eukaryotes

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 922-931

  Haldar, Kasturi ^a   Kamoun, Sophien ^b   Hiller, N Luisa ^a   Bhattacharje, Souvik ^a   van Ooij, Christiaan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEINASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ENZYME INHIBITION; ERYTHROCYTE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HOST CELL; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT CELL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; EVOLUTION; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33751104451     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1549     Document Type: Review

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